State or local rules
requiring public lotteries and equal treatment may be helpful but difficult to enforce, as Jabbar's evidence on pre-OneApp principal behavior attests.
Not exact matches
In fact, she says that they are
required to select from a
lottery system and actually bounce fewer students from school than ordinary
public schools.
The school
lotteries, which are
required under the state's charter law when a school is over capacity, provide a way to answer the common complaint that the charter school applicants are «different» from their peers in the traditional
public schools.
Require that
public charter schools be free and open to all students just as traditional
public schools are, and that students be selected by
lottery to ensure fairness if more students apply than a school can accommodate;
WLA is a free, non-selective, open enrollment,
public charter high school in Washington, D.C. WLA participates in the common
lottery for
public schools in D.C. WLA does not
require recommendation letters, test scores, essays or interviews.
Assuming the parents were right I've amended my approach to suggest that there was some inherent bias in the selection process since it
required parents to know about the
lottery and go through the process as well as a related out - migration system in which students that didn't fit the mold were sent back to the
public school system.
In instances of the conversion of an existing
public school to a
public charter school, the local school board may
require that current students of the school to be converted and their siblings be given enrollment priority over the
lottery process.
By law, each charter
public school is
required to conduct a blind
lottery when the number of applicants exceeds the number of available spaces.
Students who apply to charters are chosen by
lottery, unlike
public magnet schools, which often
require admissions testing.
As Massachusetts
public charter schools, Phoenix schools are
required to hold a random, blind
lotteries to select students for admission.
Most states
require the names of winners to be
public to show that the
lottery system is not rigged.